The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-26
NEWS AND OTHER YOrIyGS.

Mrs. John Her5eot, of Joliet, ILL.,, went
ID sleep on Christmas eve last year, and at
last accounts was still asleep, having lain
in q cataleI tie state for 2I7 days.
"A man IS going about the streets of Day.
tona, Fla, claiming to be st. John the Bap-
list. lie has light hair, chin whiskeTs and
looks like steamboat deck hand.
The sweet potato crop Of the eastern
shore of Virginia, it Is estimated from it,
formation furnished the Pennsylvania Rail
road and other transportation companies
viii reach 100, 900 barrels.
The Galveston Eegrs says Texas has p
550,OOO dogs. The dogs cost the owners
cents day per head, OF altogether II. OOo.-
COO year, and sheep owners - 0OO, 600 a
year more, total OF $50. 600 600.
james Smith, postmaster and justice of
peace ut Concord, Sussex county, Delaware
took 300 ont of widows pension Of 81 200
and has come to grief al ;he inside of a jail.
The widow could neither read nor write.
Two races OF men are dying out-the
Laplanders, who number 80, 600. and the
MaorIs, OF New Zealand, reduced from
100, 900 TO $4,000 since the days Of Captain
Cook. and likely Ia be extinct by the year
, 600.
Professor o. : Fowler, the noted phren-
olOGist and lecturer, died az his residence
near Sharon Station, y. Y, on Thursday OF
last week, after an illness Of only thirty
hours. The cause OF death was spinal
supeTtinduced by heavy cold.
To get out of a thunder storm j. II
Doollttle rode his horse into an old school
H.Ny.
disturbed a hornets nest and they at
tackled the horse so savsgely that lie died
within an hour from the effect Of the stings.
-SunfiCwers are used in Wyoming Terri
tory for tuel. The stalks when dry are as
hard as mapIegood and make a hot fire,
and the seed heads with the seeds in are
said 10 burn better than the best hard coal.
An acre of sunfower5 will furnish fuel Tor
one stove for 4 year.
John Brown, tweEty-0ne years old, re-
siding Oh a farm wIthlhIs mother, three miles
north Of Lapeer, Mich, deliberately put a
bullet through the palm OF his hand with a
revolver to UYade work. lie submitted him.
self 10 the same ordeal about a year ago,
! only using the other hand as a target.
james Smith. while under the influence
Of liquor al Linden, Mich, a few weeks
I ago. married - woman of bad reputation
( TIE act weighed on his mind, however and
on Thursday OF last week he blew out his
brains. Smith was a prominent figure in
/ social circles and was accounted a prosper
/ Gus business man.
"A San Diego, Cal, citizen who is ''above
/ suspicion" has biz grape vine, Of which
| he says Last year ! helped pick and
| weigh l,Is3 pounds OF fruit from that vine.
4 l saw those grapes pressed into I23 gaIloas
/ OF wine by man eighty-three years OF age
! and the most of the product was retailed to
medicine men here at 81 per gallon.
"A regulation drunken hungarian fight
| occurred near Leisenring, Fayette county,
/ last Sunday evening. in which a Hun was
I shot through the neck by felIew-country-
man. Is is thought that Ehe wound will
I not prove fatal Knives, clubs, and stones
/ were freely used, and Z number OF other
/ Huns were badly injured. No arrests have
( been made.
/ Thomas Dott. farmer of GIbsonia, Pa,
sixteen miles from Pittsburgh was fatally
stabbed on Tuesday morning by a German
! farmland whose name is not known Dott
I discharged him cause there was no work.
! and the German, without any other provo
, casiOn, drew a large knife and thrust IL into
/ Dott's abdomen. He then fed and has not
/ yet been caught.
! A special from Republican City, Neb.
says: Z cyclone from the north struck
/ her. on Thursday afternoon of last week
and every brick building in town is wrecked.
/ The brick school house beng built vas
! blown down, burying seven wOrkmen
/ Five were Injured and J. :. Lannig and z
man named Allen were killed. ! be damage
I Will reach SO, 900.
Wesley C. Parker, about twenty years
/ old, shot bImseif in the Congregational
/ Church at EImdale, Kan. on last Sunday
evening. He ioiDed with the congregation
singing the d0xOlogy and after the minister
! had pronounced the beLedlction Parker rose
70 his feet, drew q revolver and said La.
dies snd gentlemen, bid you all good-by, -
and then pulled the trigger.
jesse Larne, son of John L. Larne, of
I Trenton, Y. J., was bitten by dog last
June. The wound healed readily, and
nothing more was thought about it. Last
Saturday the boy was taken with cOnvul.
sions. The child had an attack of hydro,
phObIa. Everything was done for him
which medical skill could advise. but he
died the next morning IN terrible agony.
a strange case Is reported from the
Hermitage district, Tenn. Richard Hunt, q
colored preacher, has built up a little con-
Gregation and established . small church
! He wanted to hold revival, but the slight
| expense OF lights, etc, could not be met
lie stole a COW from one OF his neighbors
brought II TO Nashville and sold it for S15,
and went back and started his revival lie
is now in jail.
in LouGOn county, Virginia, on Wednes
day of last week, Ida BrOOkings, a gIrl i
years old, was left at home with little
brother OF years, while the remainder oi
the family went TO the farm to work. Or
their return, the boy was missing and Ids
said he hsd gone from the house to i1d hi:
mother. 1t turned out that Ida had broker
his skull with a stone and dragged his body
away 70 conceal it. She is now in jail.
"A mad dog attacked Mrs. Henry Biekle
near Louisville, Ky, and William Eichen. q
young, new-landed German employed by
Biekle, went TO her rescue and etrangleC
the brute, but not before bis hands and
arms had been badly bitten. AS soon a.
Biekle learned that the dog was mad, and
that Eichen might have the hydrcphobia, ht
promptly discharged the young man WHIT
lad saved his wife's life, and the poor fel-
low. without money or friends, was admit